Bright sunshine and little in the way of breeze would always see it tough on a clear river but some excellent weights spread throughout two stretches previously unused for any big open matches but will feature in next year’s Division 1 National.

Clipstone’s Dave Rose is the new Trent Champion despite a slow first two hours with little to grace his net at Rolleston 24 until bream number one arrived. The patience to keep feeding paid-off and the peg grew from there and was followed by 40 more fish up to 3lb on a groundbait feeder with worm and maggot which brought him an impressive 99lb 13oz.

Dave Rose 1st 99lb 13oz

Runner-up and finding himself on one end of a huge shoal of bream at Fiskerton 14 was John Bottfield who caught steadily throughout the match to finish with 93lb 12oz.

John Bottfield 2nd 93lb 12oz

Dennis Armstrong was two pegs away and found the other end of the shoal for 64lb 13oz and third place.

Dennis Armstrong 3rd 64lb 13oz

Back at Rolleston peg 1, local rod Dave Sims had 60lb of bream and skimmers for fourth. Plenty of backing weights throughout with half the field weighing 8lb or more.